AKHAND PATH:27-29 July at Gurdwara Sahib Puchong, Selangor. PATH DA BHOG: 29 July 2018 (Sunday) at Gurdwara Sahib Puchong | Malaysia
Jagindar Kaur Natha Singh (1948-2018), Puchong
JAGINDAR KAUR D/O NATHA SINGH
Village: Metab Kot, Amritsar
Born: 2 March 1948
Departed: 16 July 2018
Husband: Late Pritam Singh s/o Attar Singh
Children:
P. Rangit Singh
P. Harpal Singh
Kulwant Kaur
P. Jaspal Singh
Grandchildren:
Pearl Sharween Kaur
Nashweender Singh
Manmeetpal Kaur
Keshweenpal Singh
Akhand Path: 27-29 July at Gurdwara Sahib Puchong, Selangor
Path do Bhog: 29 July 2018 (Sunday) at Gurdwara Sahib Puchong
CONTACT:
P. Rangit Singh 019 219 5685
P. Harpal Singh 019 219 5422
| Entry: 16 July 2018 | Source: Family
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It’s all over! The debate about VAR will long continue but Ivan Perisic knew what he was doing when he moved his hand towards the ball and prevented it from going into a dangerous area, across the six yard box.
The Gods were certainly smiling on the French when they took the lead after Mario Mandzukic was unlucky to have the ball skim off his head for the ever dreaded own goal. With the Croatians dictating play, it was a cruel blow but credit to Zlatko Dalic’s men as they fought valiantly.
It’s fair to say Croatia had their tactics right especially allowing N’Golo Kanté the ball because he is the weakest in possession. But Didier Deschamps was wily enough to take Kante off for the ball playing Steven Nzonzi and the French wrestled control of midfield. Up stepped Paul Pogba with a sublime pass into space for Kylian the Kid and was then perfectly positioned to take his goal albeit on the second attempt.
The young centreback Raphaël Varane was imperious as Croatia tried to find holes in the French defense but there were none.
As Hugo Lloris got the assist for Mario Mandzukic’s goal, he lost the Golden Glove Award to Thibaut Courtois!
There is absolutely nothing new to learn from this World Cup as there has been zero tactical innovations. Defensive discipline with tireless running won the day.
We can conclude, the “pass and move” was smothered by the “push and run”.
And the award goes to –
Golden Ball – Antoine Griezmann
Golden Glove – Thibaut Courtois
Best Defense – France
Best Midfield – Croatia
Best Striker – Mario Mandzukic
Top Scorer – Harry Kane
And the alternate awards –
Butterfingers – Fernando Muslera
Worst First Touch – Romelu Lukaku
I Was There – Raheem Sterling
Stephane Guivarch Award – Olivier Giroud
Best Assist – Hugo Lloris
Most Overrated – Toni Kroos
The domestic leagues in Europe will kickoff in about a month’s time and normal life will resume for the players while we recall the day when the unforeseen circumstances of football helped France become world champions.
[Serbegeth Singh is a former Malaysian international footballer and current football analyst. For the duration of the World Cup 2018, he will share his thoughts at Asia Samachar on Mondays, looking back at the action in Russia over the week]
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S.A. Vigneswaran was the only person standing for the leadership of Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC), the Indian-based party that was swept out of power along with the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition at the May general elections.
The party, once the proud representative of the Indian community in the Malaya when it gained independence in 1957, and then Malaysia which was formed in 1963, has an uphill battle to regain its footing.
On Saturday (14 July 2018), it named Vigneswaran as the president, taking over from former president and then federal minister S. Subramaniam.
Vicky, as he is popularly known among his supporters, was a one-time protege of MIC supremo S Samy Vellu, who was also present at the presidential elections at the party’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
“Moving forward, it’s all about serving the people,” former senator and MIC central working committee (CWC) member Daljit Singh told Asia Samachar. He was present at the event.
In 2015, Daljit won a seat in the party’s main body. In the same elections, Senator Jaspal Singh won a spot as a party vice president.
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There is no denying that France and Croatia have arrived in the final on merit. Both teams have been consistent without relying on one or two individuals. It has been the collective up until now and it is very difficult to separate these two teams as we compare the two sets of players.
Hugo Lloris v Danijel Subasic
Certainly the two best goalkeepers in this World Cup and the world champion custodian should win the Golden Ball let alone the Golden Glove. Both goalkeepers have dealt well with pressure situations and shown remarkable agility too. Score: 1-1.
Benjamin Pavard v Sime Vrsaljko
One has scored a beauty of a goal while the other has a great assist in a semifinal. Both Pavard and Vrsaljko have first and foremost, defended well as individuals and as a group. Quite possibly, Vrsaljko is has the slight edge with his final ball. Score: 0-1.
Lucas Hernandez v Ivan Strinic
Unspectacularly consistent but always providing the options from the left flank, both fullbacks have given their all in every game. While Strinic always looks like he is on his last legs, what with having done more mileage in extra time, it is Hernandez who has been getting stronger every game. Score: 1-0.
Raphaël Varane v Dejan Lovren
The French defender has looked composed and his pace allows France to hold a higher line when not in possession, the Croatian has kept his composure. It has not been easy for Lovren on the back of high profile blunders in his club career. Score: 1-1.
Samuel Umtiti v Domagoj Vida
Both left sided centrebacks have not taken any prisoners and played their part well as one half of a partnership. Score: 1-1.
N’Golo Kante v Marcelo Brozovic
The French terrier has been excellent in hounding the ball or opponents while Brozovic has excelled as “front sweeper” with his clever positioning and interceptions. Both provide so much security which has allowed their fullbacks the freedom to get forward. Score: 1-1.
Blaise Matuidi v Ivan Rakitic
These two have played interesting roles with Matuidi providing better defensive work while Rakitic has done both offensive and defensive duty with distinction. It’s fair to say Rakitic has had more influence than Matuidi. Score: 0-1.
Paul Pogba v Luka Modric
The driving force in their respective teams, Pogba and Modric have shown great vision in both the short ball or long ball game. While Paul Pogba has been a controlled influence, Luka Modric has been the influencer! Score: 0-1.
Antoine Griezmann v Ivan Perisic
The Frenchman has excelled after being granted a free role while Perisic has displayed great power and determination from a wide left position. The final could well depend on Croatia’s ability to keep Griezmann from finding space in between their defense and midfield. Score: 1-0.
Kylian Mbappe v Ante Rebic
The explosive Mbappe and the explosively powerful Ante Rebic will light up the final with their strengths. It’s useful to have power in the attacking third but pace allows exploitation of the length of the pitch. Score: 1-0.
Olivier Giroud v Mario Mandzukic
One striker who scores goals while the other has yet to! Can Giroud win the World Cup for France? Score: 0-1.
With a score of 7-8, this could mean history with Croatia becoming only the ninth country to win the World Cup.
[Serbegeth Singh is a former Malaysian international footballer and current football analyst. For the duration of the World Cup 2018, he will share his thoughts at Asia Samachar on Mondays, looking back at the action in Russia over the week]
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EKTA Club maiden fund raising dinner – Photo: Asia Samachar
EKTA Club maiden fund raising dinner – Photo: Asia Samachar
EKTA Club maiden fund raising dinner – Photo: Asia Samachar
EKTA Club maiden fund raising dinner – Photo: Asia Samachar
EKTA Club maiden fund raising dinner – Photo: Asia Samachar
STANDING UP FOR A CAUSE: Kuldip Kaur Gill (4th from left) and the EKTA Club team with Gurmeet Kaur (2nd from right) – Photo Asia Samachar
These bunch of Punjabi ladies – many of them professionals like lawyers, doctors, bankers and entrepreneurs in Malaysia – are trying to make a difference in the lives of others.
After doing voluntary work for the last two years or so, they came up with a plan to organise their maiden fund raising dinner. And they certainly knew how to put up a grand performance which included a fashion show.
Welcome to the fund raising dinner of two-year old EKTA Club of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.
“The funds may help to change the life of a boy or a girl,” the club president Kuldip Kaur Gill told Asia Samachar at the sidelines of the event on Saturday (7 July 2018).
The well-attended dinner function of the non-government organisation (NGO) took place at a Punjabi restaurant in Kuala Lumpur. The mood was joyful, and the members mingling with a sense of gladness that they are making a difference.
“EKTA‘s slogan is ‘making a difference’ and we have many projects in the pipeline. We are also moving forward with dreams of establishing a formidable Punjabi woman’s organisation that not only makes an impression but one that quickly meanders towards and is able to be on the same platform as other more established Malaysian and international organisations,” Kuldip said in her welcoming speech.
Also present was Gurmeet Kaur, the wife of late legendary politician and lawyer Karpal singh and also mother of the first Sikh federal government minister Gobind Singh Deo.
The club, registered as an NGO, is made up of 50 lady members from various professions and homemakers. Its first annual general meeting (AGM) was held on 11 January 2017.
It provides a platform for its members to empower communities through four committees: the Medical Committee, the Legal Aid Committee, the Welfare Committee and the YDLL Committee. EKTA is already an active affiliate of the National Council of Women’s Organisation NCWO at the national level.
“I feel truly honoured to be the inaugural president of a club whose members include not only qualified women who have breached the glass ceiling in their own professions but also women of great compassion and integrity who have a strong desire to contribute towards the less fortunate in our community.
“Together we proudly call ourselves the Ektarians. This constellation of ladies are truly the heartbeat of the club. Every Ektarian is a beautiful star. It is also heart-warming to see the friendships that have blossomed within the club,” she said.
EKTA’s medical sub-committee is led by a former deputy director of University Hospital Harbans Kaur. It has organised medical talks at Petaling Jaya, High Street, Shah Alam and Ampang gurdwaras.
The legal sub-committee, led by lawyer and lecturer Dr Jashpal Kaur, has organised talks at gurdwaras at Mantin, Kajang and Shah Alam on topics like women’s rights, divorce and domestic violence.
“It is anticipated that the legal team will come out with a booklet on Women’s Rights in this country from a Sikh perspective in the near future. They have also been invited to set up a legal office within the Kajang gurdwara. Visiting the Punjabi female prisoners at the Kajang prison and helping members of the community to prepare wills at a nominal rate are some of the projects in the pipeline,” she said.
The Youth Development and Life Long Learning sub-committee is led by Dr Saran Kaur, a former vice chancellor of University Kebangsaan Malaysia, while its welfare sub-committee is headed by EKTA vice president Rani Gurmit.
Amarjit Kaur Gill was the organising chairperson for the dinner.
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Ashvinder Kaur and Pervinder Kaur – Photo grab from video single ‘Latest Tarana Fusion’
Kuala Lumpur-based sisters Ashvinder Kaur and Pervinder Kaur released a video single with the injection of awesome tarana and sargam.
The tarana fusion was released as Pervinder, the 24 year-old pre-school teacher, gets ready for her wedding tomorrow at a gurdwara in Kuala Lumpur.
“Our teacher had suggested it, and we also thought it would be a nice project to work on for the wedding,” Ashvinder, a chemist by day and an active Sikh volunteer, told Asia Samachar.
Their music teacher is Raina Arvinder, a Punjab musician who is now based in Malaysia. He had released a music video Saiyan in August 2018.
“You guys are amazing. Loved it. Awesome trana. Awesome sargams towards the end. Kya baat Kya Baat Kya Baat,” commented Gurmukh Singh, a Kuala Lumpur based lawyer and himself an accomplished kirtani.
Tarana type of singing is exclusive in its own way, as it uses poetry full of powerful words, according to one music site. This brand of singing makes use of words like Nadir, Tundir, Dir Dir.Tarana is found all over India. In south Indian music it is referred as ‘Tillana’ or ‘Thillana’ and is usually employed in dance performances.
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Lt Col (Rtd) Jagindar Singh Charl releases Tamil comedy thriller Atcham Thavir
Little did a retired Malaysian air force officer thought that he would be making a movie, but that is exactly what Lt Col (Rtd) Jagindar Singh Charl has ended up doing.
And the journey took him to Singapore today (13 July 2018) as the Tamil comedy thriller Atcham Thavir is released in the neighbouring republic.
“It all happened by chance. They movie makers ran out of funds, so I stepped in,” Jagindar told Asia Samachar.
Jagindar, who was born in Perak but grew up in Puchong, Selangor, took optional retirement from the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) in 2012 after a three-decade service. He then set up JPS Consuiltancy and Training.
The movie, released in Malaysia last week, revolves around the reunion of six friends for a wedding. On the road trip to Terengganu, a state on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, their car breaks down. The next few nights, they stayed at someone’s house. Here is where the chills and the laughs take place.
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It is not always about one player but one part missing can make a wheel wobble. While the Belgians may point to France being defensive minded in their semifinal loss, quite perhaps its time to ponder on how the Red Devils lost their fangs.
Up until the semifinals, the Belgians looked smooth and sleek and Brazil were defeated too! It was said Roberto Martinez had planned his tactics well.
Then it happened! A tactical mess to be exact. It may have gone under the radar but Thomas Meunier had been having an outstanding tournament as right wingback. All the attention had been on Yannick Carrasco being the weak link at left wingback.
With Meunier suspended for the France game, Nacer Chadli was given a start and who was at left wingback instead of Carrasco?
Take your pick? Was it Kevin de Bruyne? Or Eden Hazard? It certainly was not Mousa Dembele or Axel Witsel. Perhaps it was Marouane Fellaini?
It was the 80th minute when Fellaini was taken off with Yannick Carrasco coming on at left wingback that Belgium realised they had been so unbalanced. There had been no cut or thrust from the flanks and Belgium had turned up in Russia without a very good second choice right wingback.
His name and profile may never be as big as Hazard, de Bruyne or Kompany, but Thomas Meunier will be remembered for his absence that caused Belgium to lose balance.
One part missing and Belgium got stuck in a rut. Now to change a bit of history, fourth was in 1986 and can Belgium go one better?
It is really remarkable on how England managed to reach the semifinals always playing with ten men. The Croatians did have to negotiate extra time and penalties twice before they faced England. The English may not have realised but playing five games on the trot with ten can be energy zapping.
If the Croatians were tired, the English were knackered! Has anyone seen Raheem Sterling?
History is only one game away for Belgium. A third place finish for England will be a measure of progress. Both teams had their reserves out in the group stage match but this time we expect more pride and determination.
[Serbegeth Singh is a former Malaysian international footballer and current football analyst. For the duration of the World Cup 2018, he will share his thoughts at Asia Samachar on Mondays, looking back at the action in Russia over the week]
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Am I an ideology guy or a results guy? I wish it was easy to figure out.
Friends that I used to hang out with years ago in the early 1960’s, when we spent too much time, if you ask me, living in what was fondly dubbed our MOL moments. (MOL = Meaning of Life.) We spoke loudly, emphatically, authoritatively, and freely about the esoteric mysteries of life as if we had fully understood them and tamed them. I was young then, years away from any gray in my beard.
We knew so little, but humility never touched us. Reminds me of more recent times when I was asked to speak at an interfaith forum on “Infinite Wisdom.” I closed my riff with the prophetic pronouncement that “In my not so humble view human wisdom is not infinite, human stupidity is.” If nothing else my chutzpa proved the point.
I divide humanity into two large subsets and am using “guy” here in its generic sense including both gals and guys.
I suggest that the movers and shakers of this world come in two forms: Ideology Guys and Results Guys. This model, not original to me, is probably as old as humanity. It may even exist in infra human creatures to some degree.
Ideology Guys can skin any thought, dissect any idea 99 ways to heaven, hell and back. At the end, you feel considerably elated but without a single clue, not even a glimmer, of what to do with the barrage of ideas that felt refreshing as a Summer rainfall. Ideas float around in our minds like solitary ships or beads destined to make a connected chain. It’s only when strung together that they create ideologies and ideologues (ideology guys).
Then there are the doers (Results Guys). They bloodlessly measure signs of life in the ideologues. Results-guys can tweak dreams into a workable plan and jerry rig(?) a working model, usually an oft-derided Rube Goldberg contraption.
In real life, we often dismiss the dreamers and worship the doers. But stop a while. True that without the dreamer, the idea of a machine, a road, a house or even a kitchen recipe would not exist. Yet, minus a dedicated rigger (the results guy) anything slapped together would likely be dysfunctional, inedible, impractical, horrendously expensive or surely collapse.
Both idea-guys and result-guys are equally indispensable to a functioning viable society.
That brings me to a seminal idea in Sikhi – the Meeri-Peeri doctrine. It tells us bluntly to merge the internal sense of the self with the external lifestyle. Let not remain even the smallest chink of light between the two. If Peeri is the repository of ideas then Meeri breathes life into them. Ergo, one may not separate them, or dismiss one without diminishing the other.
I remind you of Kant’s Categorical Imperative that any action that is contemplated comes to the table with one question: If everyone did what I am about to do would that be alright?
Why do I label Peeri the compendium of ideas? Because Sikh teaching – Peeri – comes as a supremely revered document, a book (The Guru Granth Sahib), and traditions. It’s chockful of ideas — a roadmapfor making a life; an ethical framework to live by. We, the people, need to run with the ideas.
History tells us that the Sikh Punjabi peasant could and did exactly that and changed the face of the land. A rich gene pool of hybrid vigor, a people subjected to yearly invasions by a variety of adventurers, from traders to wannabe conquistadores and plunderers. In a little over 200 years Sikhs transformed Punjab into a place where the people became masters of their own fate. Inevitable when ideologues (dreamers) and result-guys (tinkerers)merged together to interweave lessons of Peeri with Meeri. Then the whole became greater than the sum of the parts.
Ergo, don’t dismiss the “Peers” of our existence as just so much chatter, or the Meers of our life as ungodly materialists. Keep Meeri and Peeri yoked together to the same productive plow of life. Dreamers provide the road map;result-guys construct the working model. And MOL moments become lessons for life – better late than never. This remains a lasting lesson of Sikhi for the wider world.
Unfortunately, I would catalogue myself as more a dreamer, less a maker or doer. What to say of such people who bring down the sky with empty talk (Baaten hee asman garavey; Aissay logan se kya kaheeye, Guru Granth p. 332).
I.J. Singh is a New York based writer and speaker on Sikhism in the Diaspora, and a Professor of Anatomy. Email: ijsingh99@gmail.com.
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[Serbegeth Singh is a former Malaysian international footballer and current football analyst. For the duration of the World Cup 2018, he will share his thoughts at Asia Samachar on Mondays, looking back at the action in Russia over the week]
